That's
the sound of the needle getting yanked off the record player, and yes, I just totally dated myself.
One of the biggest losses of music going from LPs to digital — besides the comforting click and pop
sounds of a needle on vinyl — is the shrinking size of the album cover art canvases, so often illustrated with the exquisite vision of an artist or photographer.
One of the biggest benefits of automatic players is that you can fall asleep to your favorite record without waking up to
the sound of your needle scraping over the label.
Not exact matches
The records I played on it
sounded great; the platter didn't rumble, the
needle tracked the albums well, and I didn't notice any distortion regardless
of genre or volume.
Super-saturated
sound - portraits
of entrepreneurs and artists at work on the 2400 block
of Saint Paul Street: Whirring blenders, whispering crochet
needles, bubbling deep - fryers, clanking screen - presses, snipping scissors, and whooshing hair dryers comprise the soundscapes at Style Lab, Ajna Printing, American Wings & Pizza, Lauryn Byrd's Yarn Bombs, and Grind House Juice Bar & Café.
Listen in, and you'll hear the
sounds of baseball: chatter,
needling, kibitzing, stories that reach across the years and often involve their old coach.
IT»S like threading a
needle while travelling faster than the speed
of sound.
I know being poked with
needles sounds like a form
of torture, but it induces a unique relaxation experience unlike any other.
With a mix
of olive, canola, safflower, coconut, juniper, lavender, and sage oils with hill country juniper berries and
needles, they
sound amazing!
On the other hand, the DD 1.0 mono audio is a major disappointment, given the musical nature
of the second half
of the film (and the acerbic
sound - editing
of the first, which recalls Walter Murch's early experiments in noise - as - wallpaper)-- it all
sounds like a sausage forced through the eye
of a
needle, and as sharp - eared observers have pointed out elsewhere, the trademark line «Here's to Old England!»
(The brilliant image is matched by clear DD 2.0 mono audio that reproduces Herrmann's incomparable genius with a commensurately craggy fidelity — screaming strings never
sounded so raw, and I'm on pins and
needles waiting for the inevitable (I hope) remaster
of The Birds somewhere down the road.)
Anderson makes the audience acutely aware
of just how flaky the croissants are, the rich and smooth flow
of black coffee in the morning, the structural appearance
of every dress, and the sharp
sound a
needle makes piercing through fabric.
The
needle of the rev counter goes up to 6,000 rpm, the
sound becomes more dramatic and the 255 mm larger rear tyres fight for more traction.
And the
sounds are glorious — growl, rasp and shriek can be had in a single sweep
of the tach
needle.
Another ultra
sound showed a thickening
of the stomach lining, a fine
needle aspiration
of the stomach was too little for pathology to do a work up on.
Featuring the Broforce theme song by Strident, ultra-patriotic tracks The Ballad
of Rambro and The Star Spangled Banner, massive percussion ensemble level music, power metal stings and epic hybrid scoring boss battles, this is the
sound of a vinyl
needle dragging over a disk made
of pure testosterone.
«The deep
needle beds muffled her footsteps and the forest swallowed every other
sound except the whispering
of the
needles in the tree - tops.
In his film and slide installations, such as The Curves
of the
Needle (2003), Wyn Evans manipulates
sound to form a parallel «text» to the visuals, where meaning is opened up by the unexpected slippage that occurs when the soundtrack is dislodged, changed or removed.
On the projected film, one can see a series
of moving white lines that are created by the
needle of the bio chart reader as it interprets the
sound vibrations.
The video captures the idiosyncratic qualities
of analog
sound as the records spin or even wobble with his imperfectly timed
needle drops.
I've heard too many audiophile headphones that
sound precise but utterly unexciting, and the Ella thread the
needle by being faithful to the detail and substance
of a song while still getting your foot tapping in approval.